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Norah McGuinness (Norah Allison McGuinness) was born on 7 November, 1901 in County Londonderry, Ireland, is an Irish artist. Discover Norah McGuinness's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is she in this year and how she spends money? Also learn how she earned most of networth at the age of 79 years old?

Popular As Norah Allison McGuinness
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Age 79 years old
Zodiac Sign Scorpio
Born 7 November, 1901
Birthday 7 November
Birthplace County Londonderry, Ireland
Date of death 22 November, 1980
Died Place Dublin, Ireland
Nationality Ireland

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1901

Norah Allison McGuinness (7 November 1901 – 22 November 1980) was an Irish painter and illustrator.

Norah McGuinness was born in County Londonderry.

1920

She attended the Chelsea Polytechnic in London before spending the 1920s working in Dublin as a book illustrator and stage designer.

1921

She attended life classes at Derry Technical School and from 1921 studied at the Dublin Metropolitan School of Art under Patrick Tuohy ( 1894–1930 ), Oswald Reeves ( 1870–1967 ) and Harry Clarke.

1925

She settled in 1925 in Wicklow and was involved in the literary and theatrical life of Dublin, designing for the Abbey and Peacock theatres and illustrating W. B. Yeats’s Stories of Red Hanrahan (London, 1927).

1926

Through Clarke she obtained a commission to illustrate Sterne's A Sentimental Journey (London, 1926).

1929

On Mainie Jellett’s advice she went to Paris in 1929 to study with André Lhôte and came under the influence of the École de Paris.

1930

She married the editor Geoffrey Phibbs, but they divorced in 1930 after Phibbs had left her more than once, notably for the poet Laura Riding.

From there she moved to London where she was a member of Lucy Wertheim's 'Twenties Group' and of the avant-garde London Group.

1937

From 1937-39 she lived in New York, where she exhibited her paintings, created illustrations for Harper’s Bazaar and designed windows for Altman’s department store on Fifth Avenue.

1939

After New York, she returned to Ireland in 1939, settled in Dublin and concentrated on painting.

She died in County Dublin.

Although her work remained figurative, she painted vivid, highly coloured landscapes; her work shows the cubist influence of Lhote and she was associated with the modern movement in Ireland.

1943

She helped found the Irish Exhibition of Living Art in 1943 and became its president in 1944 after the death of Mainie Jellett.

1950

With Nano Reid she represented Ireland in the 1950 Venice Biennale.

This was the first time Ireland participated in this international exhibition.

1957

She was elected an honorary member of the Royal Hibernian Academy in 1957, but later resigned.

She designed windows for Brown Thomas for over thirty years.

1968

There was a retrospective of her work in the Douglas Hyde Gallery, Trinity College Dublin in 1968, and in 1973 the college awarded her an honorary doctorate.

2013

Her work featured in IMMA’s 2013 ‘Analysing Cubism’ exhibition.

2017

By 2017, the official list of artists representing Ireland since 1950 showed that the majority of artists chosen in the years since McGuinness and Reid's participation were women.